Roumeli : travels in northern Greece / Patrick Leigh Fermor ; introduction by Patricia Storace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fermor, Patrick Leigh.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--Description and travel.

Greece.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 260 pages : map ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2006]

Summary:

Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece-stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past.

Roumeli describes Patrick Leigh Fermor's wanderings in and around this mysterious and yet very real region. He takes us with him among Sarakatsan shepherds, to the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, and on a mission to track down a pair of Byron's slippers at Missolonghi. As he does, he brings to light the inherent conflicts of the Greek inheritance-the tenuous links to the classical and Byzantine heritage, the legacy of Ottoman domination-along with an underlying, even older world, traces of which Leigh Fermor finds in the hills and mountains and along stretches of barely explored coast.

Roumeli is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese.

Contents:

1 The Black Departers 7

2 The Monasteries of the Air 70

3 The Helleno-Romaic Dilemma and Sidetrack to Crete 103

4 North of the Gulf 157

5 The Kingdom of Autolycus 186

6 Sounds of the Greek World 237

Appendix I Derivations of Sarakatsan 245.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1966.

Includes index.

ISBN:

159017187X

OCLC:

61240603

Publisher Number:

9781590171875

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